China’s Commerce Ministry on Tuesday released two lists of Japanese companies, institutions and agencies for which exports will require special government permission. A blacklist of 20 entities “participating in enhancing Japan’s military capabilities” was issued. It includes Mitsubishi Shipbuilding and several Mitsubishi Heavy Industries subsidiaries; several IHI Corporation companies; the National Defense Academy and JAXA … Read more
Suspect is in police custody; no information about potential motive. Published On 26 Dec 202526 Dec 2025 Click here to share on social media share2 Share A man has carried out a mass stabbing attack at a Japanese tyre factory, also spraying victims with a chemical substance, according to local officials. Eight people were stabbed … Read more
As trial opens, Tetsuya Yamagami admits murdering Japan’s longest serving leader three years ago. Published On 28 Oct 202528 Oct 2025 Click here to share on social media share2 Share The man accused of killing former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2022 has pleaded guilty to murder. Forty-five-year-old Tetsuya Yamagami admitted all charges read … Read more
A Japanese streamer was stabbed multiple times while IRL streaming to over 6,000 people in Tokyo. On March 11 at 9:50 am JST, Ai Mogami was walking the streets of Shinjuku while livestreaming on the Japanese platform WhoWatch. According to NeedToKnow, the streamer suddenly began screaming for over a minute before a man covered in … Read more
Nihon Hidankyo, the Japanese atomic bomb survivors’ group, has accepted the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize “for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons”. Now in their 80s and 90s, members of the group who survived American bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki accepted the award at a ceremony in Oslo’s City Hall … Read more
TOKYO — An unexploded U.S. bomb from World War II that had been buried at a Japanese airport exploded Wednesday, causing a large crater in a taxiway and the cancellation of more than 80 flights, Japanese officials said. No one was hurt, and there were no aircraft nearby when the bomb exploded at Miyazaki Airport … Read more
Tomiko Itooka went mountain climbing into her 70s, scaling Japan’s 3,067-metre Mount Ontake – in sneakers. A Japanese woman aged 116 is set to be named the world’s oldest person by Guinness World Records. The United States-based Gerontology Research Group announced on Wednesday that former mountaineer Tomiko Itooka, born on May 23, 1908, would assume … Read more
Police said three people were wounded in port city of Karachi but bomber and accomplice died. A suicide bomber has detonated his explosive-laden vest near a van carrying Japanese autoworkers in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi, police said, injuring three bystanders. The van was heading to an industrial area where the five Japanese nationals … Read more